Training Log Archive: simmoIn the 7 days ending Apr 23, 2017:
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Sunday Apr 23, 2017 #
Orienteering race 17:21 [4] 1.9 km (9:08 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
Sprint Qualification at World Masters. Garmin 2.2km, so pretty clean. Couple of small errors, but quite a few stops to check the map. Finished 9th in heat, so should qualify comfortably. Haven't got the map back, and no splits up yet, will post more later.
Later: lost time in the circle at 1, going slightly right and getting confused by another control. Took a while to work out a route to 2, and didn't execute it particularly well, but did better than most - very well-set leg. 2-3 another complicated leg which I didn't execute well. Won the split from 3-4, and 3rd 0n 4-5 with the road route, running fast. 5-6, 6-7 also good legs for me, but 7-8 was BAD - didn't see the obvious route, and went in the opposite direction for 100m. 9 was fairly easy, but 10 was a corker - think I picked the correct route which was the reverse of the second part of 1-2. Too slow on short, easy leg to 11, then stuffed 11-12 - couldn't see either of the route choices, and after dithering for a while eventually picked the slowest. Managed a reasonable finish from there, although could have gained a few seconds by being more decisive after punching 12, considering I'd just run within 20m of 13 to get to 12.
A fairly late start tomorrow, will have to be in better form.
Later: lost time in the circle at 1, going slightly right and getting confused by another control. Took a while to work out a route to 2, and didn't execute it particularly well, but did better than most - very well-set leg. 2-3 another complicated leg which I didn't execute well. Won the split from 3-4, and 3rd 0n 4-5 with the road route, running fast. 5-6, 6-7 also good legs for me, but 7-8 was BAD - didn't see the obvious route, and went in the opposite direction for 100m. 9 was fairly easy, but 10 was a corker - think I picked the correct route which was the reverse of the second part of 1-2. Too slow on short, easy leg to 11, then stuffed 11-12 - couldn't see either of the route choices, and after dithering for a while eventually picked the slowest. Managed a reasonable finish from there, although could have gained a few seconds by being more decisive after punching 12, considering I'd just run within 20m of 13 to get to 12.
A fairly late start tomorrow, will have to be in better form.
Monday Apr 17, 2017 #
Orienteering race 42:16 [4] 2.3 km (18:23 / km)
shoes: X-Talon 190
Oceania Middle, 3.82km on the Garmin. Nice area with lots of big rocks and intricate gully/spur with many depressions - very muddy though, especially for late starters.
Was never going to be fast, and took my time to 1, then 2-4 ok. Went one gully too far at 5, and lost 2 mins on a very steep hillside. 6 was a much bigger and preventable disaster, had a good route and found it straightaway, but read the wrong number on my descriptions so kept going for 300m too far before realising - 5 mins+ gone there! Another 2 mins lost at 8 which was a pretty vague feature in a badly mapped area. Good after that, but the winner was 13 mins quicker overall.
Was never going to be fast, and took my time to 1, then 2-4 ok. Went one gully too far at 5, and lost 2 mins on a very steep hillside. 6 was a much bigger and preventable disaster, had a good route and found it straightaway, but read the wrong number on my descriptions so kept going for 300m too far before realising - 5 mins+ gone there! Another 2 mins lost at 8 which was a pretty vague feature in a badly mapped area. Good after that, but the winner was 13 mins quicker overall.